AD408 Advanced

Advanced Section

Terms

Tutorial

This section of the class will cover C++, Performer, and YG programming. The prerequisite for this section is a working knowledge of C or C++ and prior experience with YG scripting. The following topics will be covered:

C++

• Object Oriented programming
• Abstract data types
• Data encapsulation
• classes
• constructors
• member variables
• static member variables
• member functions
• member function/variable access
• inheritance
• scope
• variable passing
• memory allocation
• virtual functions
• commenting

Performer

• Scene graph
• Geometry
• Graphics state
• Transformations
• Inheritance
• Open GL callbacks
• memory allocation
• memory reuse

Yggdrasil

• Makenode
• reset virtual function
• message virtual function
• app virtual function
• network keys
• acceptNetKey virtual function
• effictiency issues
• initialization issues